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Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World (Compact Disc)

About the Author

Margaret MacMillan is the author of "Women of the Raj "and "Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World," which won the Duff Cooper Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History, a Silver Medal for the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction. It was selected by the editors of "The New York Times" as one of the best books of 2002. Currently the provost of Trinity College and a professor of history at the University of Toronto, MacMillan takes up the position of warden of St. Antony's College, Oxford, in July 2007. She is an officer of the Order of Canada, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a senior fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto.

"From the Hardcover edition."

BARBARA CARUSO is an American graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She enjoys a rich acting career which has included Broadway, off Broadway, and many theaters across the country. On those stages she has performed in plays by Shakespeare, Chekov, Williams, O Neil, and Neil Simon, to name but a few.

Spoken word audio is an important part of that career. Her countless recordings include the works of Edith Wharton, Margaret Atwood, Maeve Binchy, Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, and children s classics. "AudioFile "magazine has chosen her one of their Voices of the Century. She s won numerous Earphones Awards, including for her narration of "The Year of Magical Thinking" (an Audie(r) Award finalist) and "The House of Scorta", both published by HighBridge. She is the recipient of the Alexander Scourby Award, presented by the American Foundation for the Blind.